It's starting. I don't feel much more prepared than I did last time. I think ballet will help. I think the ton of confidence and self-esteem she has will also help. But, any way you look at it, it's a tough passage. They have to basically give birth to themselves as adults, and they think that means they have to killl their child-selves to do that (very sad), and of course, they think they are in some ways killing you.
I will just have to go to UCB and see what I can dig up in the psych library.
Didn't we used to have a lurker/sometime poster who was a shrink? Miles or something like that?
Joanna
Charles A. Grimes wrote:
>Good books on adolescents. Wish I could help. I did a limited search
>once upon time and didn't like anything I saw for my kid. It looked
>more or less the same as the stuff I found for myself at the
>public library from the liberal wing of the 50s---none of which was
>particularly helpful.
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>My mother was reading Karen Horney (pyschoanalytic women's stuff)
>which I kinda of scanned through at sixteen and thought if I could
>only understand this stuff better maybe I could get laid...
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>I asked a coo-worker who suggested Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
>for K, which she read to her daughter about the same age--going into
>seventh grade. She also suggested Get Out of My Life, But First Could
>You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall, Anthony Wolf.
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